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Features contributions from the world’s leading Pushkin scholars, examining Pushkin’s life, work, and thought, and his place in Russian and world literature and culture. The contributors to this volume consider…
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David M. Bethea
A study which illustrates the relation between the art and life of nineteenth-century poet Alexander Pushkin. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of his two-hundredth birthday, still speaks to…
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David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the end of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the…
Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of…
This critical biography of Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), David M. Bethea introduces to the Western reader the life and art of a literary figure described by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest…
The crucial bilingual aspects of the poetic world of Russian-born American Poet Lauriete Joseph Brodsky are examined in this study. He is compared and contrasted with such great Russian literary…
Indispensable for understanding the historical, cultural and intellectual contexts of Nabokov’s work for students of English, American and Russian literary and cultural studies. This book is also essential reading for…
This book brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary…
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Vladislav Khodasevich
Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir from Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest Russian poet of our time. In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes…
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